If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song.

Love is the light that can shine so bright.

I was born the son of a lawless man, always spoke my mind with a gun in my hand.

Don't surrender to the dying light; don't take it lying down.

The writers that I aspire to, like Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman, they'll tell you that the work gets harder, not easier. And they set that bar for us where we're always striving to do something better than the last time, whether it's the next song or just the next line.

People say, 'How's the record doing?' In the old days you'd say, 'We're at 600,000, it's doing great.' You don't say those things anymore. Those numbers are gone.

If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song.